...witnesses and attorneys fees. Nichols was spared death and sentenced to life in December 2008 for killing of a judge, a court reporter, a sheriff's deputy and a federal agent during the rampage.Phan's attorneys on Tuesday asked the Georgia...

ATLANTA - Georgia lawmakers are taking the first steps toward revamping the state's capital punishment rules after a deadlocked jury allowed courthouse gunman Brian Nichols to avoid the death penalty.

...deliberations. But, she said, "nothing we said made a difference." Mr. Nichols was convicted of killing a judge, a court reporter, a deputy and a federal agent in a 2005 shooting spree that began in a downtown Atlanta courthouse. He was spared...

...other counts in the 2005 killings. He was on trial for rape when he grabbed a guard's gun and fatally shot the judge, a court reporter and a sheriff's deputy in the courthouse. He fled and killed a federal agent in an Atlanta neighborhood. But...

...Thursday. The 37-year-old was found guilty last month of murder and dozens of other charges for killing the judge, a court reporter and a sheriff's deputy at the courthouse and a federal agent in an Atlanta neighborhood on March 11, 2005...

...people dead. Closing arguments are scheduled to begin Monday for Brian Nichols, who was convicted of killing a judge, a court reporter, a sheriff's deputy and a federal agent in the violence that began in downtown Atlanta. A jury found Nichols...

...Attorney Paul Howard, who will decide if charges should be filed. Nichols was found guilty Nov. 7 of murdering a judge, a court reporter, a sheriff's deputy and a federal agent when he escaped from a 2005 rape trial. The jury is now hearing testimony...

...began at a downtown Atlanta courthouse. Brian Nichols, 36, faces the death penalty in the fatal shootings of a judge, a court reporter, a deputy and a federal agent in the 2005 rampage. He has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, claiming...

...selection until legislators give the indigent defense more money. Mr. Nichols is accused in the murders of a judge, a court reporter and a sheriff's deputy. Mr. Fleming, appointed by House Speaker Glenn Richardson of Hiram, will look at...

...defend Brian Nichols, who is facing a death-penalty trial in Fulton County in the shooting deaths last year of a judge, a court reporter and a deputy. - Morris News Service